Likutim Yekarim [teachings and homilies of the Ba’al Shem Tov]

(CHASSIDISM).

Rapaport

Lemberg

1792

FIRST EDITON. Title within typographical border

Vinograd, Lemberg 82

Israel ben Eliezer Ba’al Shem Tov (1700-60) founder of Chassidism, never put his teachings into writing in his lifetime - indeed, he opposed the attempts of others to do so on his behalf. Not until more than two decades after his death, were his sermons and homlies first presented in written form. The Likutim Yekarim is among these significant, early Chassidic texts, containing the somewhat revolutionary teachings of the Baal Shem Tov, the Maggid of Mezhritch and other early Chassidic leaders. Views in this work aroused the ire of the Mithnagdim. Four years earlier Solomon Rapaport was responsible for the first appearance of the celebrated Noam Elimelech